Garment



s. MARCUS 29399923 GARMENT Filed July 22, 1944 Patented Apr. 30, 1946 A UNITED STATES GARMENT Solomon Marcus, Allentown, Pa., assigner to Gem Undergarment Co., a partnership Application July 22, 1944, Serial No. v546,124

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in garments of the general type known as slipsi Such garments are conventionally constructed of a plurality of panels or sections of a woven material which are stitched together along their longitudinal meeting edges, `and usually embody an upper section in the nature of a brassire or bust encircling garment unit.

My invention relates particularly to a garment in which the stitching together of such longitudinal sections or panels of the woven material is accomplished by a stitching method known as fagoting.

Undergarments of this general character, and particularly slips, have been heretofore constructed by joining the panels at their adjacent side edges by fagoting. The fagoting operation, however, has been usually performed upon premanufactured tapes of fagoting stitching which has been sought to be avoided by the expedient of providing integral inwardly folding edges constituting folded hems along the adjacent side portions of the panels of woven material and applying the fagoting stitching to such integral inwardly folded hems of the panels. An example of this procedure is disclosed in ,patent to Altman No. 2,333,404, dated November 2, 1943.

A garment in which the fagoting operation of stitching together the longitudinal, integral inwardly folded panels is done as in Altman, produces a line of juncture between the panels which is still bulky in the seams; moreover, the production of the folded edges involves a series of operative steps which adds considerably to the cost of fabrication of the garment.

In accordance, with my invention, I eliminate not only the necessity of providing pre-manufactured tapes of fagoting stitching but alsov the necessity of providing the integral inwardly folded hems along the longitudinal sides of adjacent panels. In accordance with my invention and in the production of my novel garment, I apply the fagoting stitching directly to the side edges of the panels in the seam simultaneously with the step in which such side edges are folded over to form a duplex or double layer of the woven material, the fagoting stitching being applied directly to the edges of the doubled over Woven material. In this manner, I produce an undergarment of extremely attractive appearance along its seams joining the panels, and attain a reduction, to a considerable extent, in the cost ofv fabricating the garment by eliminating the sequence of operations necessary to effect the enfolding separately of the edge sections of the panels to produce the hems to which the fagoting stitching is to be applied.

I accomplish the objects of my invention by the utilization of a folding device which may be applied directly to a conventional high speed fagoting machine, the enfolding of the edge sections of the panels being accomplished with such device simultaneously with the application of the fagoting stitching thereto.

A specific embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a front View of a slip, in the construction of which my invention has been embodied; Fig. 2 is a sectional view on a larger scale on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a front view on an enlarged scale of parts of two edge panels secured together by the fagoting stitching in accordance with my novel method.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, in which similar reference characters identify similar parts in the several views, the slip illustrated in Fig. 1 is of the type formed of a plurality of vertically extending panels disposed side by'side, the number of panels forming the front, rear and side panels being immaterial. In the illustrated embodiment, the front center panel 'I is stitched in the manner hereinafter described to two side panels 8, |8, there being a corresponding panel at the rear of the garment. To the upper edges of the longitudinally extending panels is secured, by any conventional form of stitching, a bust encircling garment section 9. Shoulder straps lll, l0, of any conventional form may complete the garment.

The longitudinally extending fabric panels of the slip are secured directly to each other along their adjacent side edges by lines of fagoting stitching I I. The character of conventional fagoting stitching is well-known to those skilled in the art and will not be herein described except, that as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the threads of the fagoting stitching extend across the space between the adjacent side edges of the panels to be joined together by such stitching. The

fagoting stitching operation may be performed on any conventional high speed fagoting machine such, for instance, as stitch as many as 2200 stitches per minute.

Prior to the application of the edges of the fabric to the folding and stitching mechanism such edges may be scalloped in conventional manner as shown at 22, 22 in Fig. 3.

It will thus be seen that with my novel arrangement, I produce a fagoting stitch juncture of the adjacent sides, of the panels constituting a slip which does not necessitate, however, the application of a pre-manufactured tape carrying the fagoting stitching, or, as is described in the Altman patent hereinabove referred to, the separate folding inwardly of the edges of the panels to constitute a double or duplex hem upon each side of the fagoting stitching. With my novel garment, a more attractively appearing juncture of the panels of the slip is secured, with a substantial saving in the operation of enfolding the edge sections of the panels and simultaneously applying the fagoting stitching thereto.

I claim:

1. A garment comprising a plurality of panels disposed laterally in the garment, with the adjacent side edges of adjacent panels spaced laterally of each other, said panels having their edge portions folded inwardly and under the side edges of the panels Without any independent line of stitches securing said folded-over edge portions to the panels, and a single line of fagoting stitching connecting the adjacent side edges of the panels, the threads of said fagoting stitching passing through the extreme edges of the downwardly and inwardly folded edges of said panels and constituting the sole means for securing the adjacent panels to each other in the lateral relation.

2. A garment as claimed in claim 1, in which the major portion of the inwardly folded edge section of each panel is free of the body portion 15 of ythe panel. 

